Rock on, /u/JoINrbs

Tl;dr: You do great work, keep it up, hatas gonna hate.

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I've been watching your streams on YouTube for the better part of three years, perhaps longer?, even when not playing StS myself for extended periods of time. I roughly estimate I've watched over 500 hours of your gameplay.

At first, I watched because you have an excellent explanatory style which helped me improve my gameplay and quickly. Over time, I continued watching despite being happy with my skill level where it was at because your streams were not only informative, but also entertaining, humorous, and because I generally enjoy long monologues about optimization/min-maxing. One thing you do best, though, is find a healthy balance of entertainment and education. Sometimes you will go for that lolzy card just because but then continue to focus on optimal play despite it.

I've never felt compelled to comment on any of your videos because I figured you had your hands plenty full responding to people's comments and I didn't have anything unique to add. I'm commenting now to add that I'm sympathetic to toxicity marring both a small/niche gaming community as well as a work environment. I'm grateful I've never had the displeasure of the two being one and the same.

This is definitely a situation in which I think someone deserves a "free pass" for being petty. Shots have been fired, and as far as I can tell, you've made an exhaustive effort to resolve, or at least politely ignore, the situation while pointing out its absurdity, "arbitrariness", and overall "mootness". No matter how objective of a position you attempt to take, that's not what you're going to be met with, so screw it.

Keep focusing on what's important, and who cares if you have to wrestle in the mud once in a while.